The solution is to eat your tomatoes in a delicious sauce that requires some chopping and mixing, but no cooking. Just chop and mix the ingredients and pour over pasta or any whole grain.

You say you like to flavor your sauce with Parmesan cheese but are watching your salt and dairy intake? Try a substitute that I call No Harma Parma; it's a low-sodium and dairy-free mixture of nutritional yeast and nuts. I created it based on a similar product I found in stores but which I found to be too expensive.

Nutritional yeast is a fungi in the edible mushroom family that's been used to produce beverages and foods for 5,000 years. Inactive nutritional yeast flakes are a great source of protein and vitamins, especially in the B-complex family, and have a cheesy flavor. Add nuts and you won't miss the Parmesan. No Harma Parma perks up everything from soups and veggies to pasta and grains.